Abu Midian
Sidi Abu Midian Choab bin Al-Ansari Al-Husayn ( Arabic : ), Sidi Boumedienne to the Maghreb , is a professor, an author and a poet of Sufism.
Founder of the main source of initiation of Sufism Maghreb and of Andalusia , was born in Cantillana in the region of Seville in 1126 and died in Tlemcen in 1198.
He is the patron saint of the city of Tlemcen in Algeria.
He is the spiritual guide of Ben Abdeslam Mchich Alami.
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Biography
Born into a family of Arab origin, Abu Midian studied in Seville and then to Fez. In this city he received his religious education and where he was influenced by the teachings of Abu Yaza , of Abd al Qadir al-Jilani and Al-Ghazali (through Ibn Hrizim , and Abu Bakr Ibn al-Arabi Abu Yaza master).
It is in the mountains of Atlas that he went to seek the ascetic mystic initiation Berber Abu Yaza.
Going on pilgrimage to Mecca , he made a stop at El Eubbad , a suburb of Tlemcen, where he taught theology and mystical science. In Mecca, he met Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.
On the way back, he made a detour to Palestine where he participated with Saladin in a major battle against the Crusaders.
After his pilgrimage to Mecca and studied at the Middle East , he settled and taught in Bejaia , capital of the flourishing literary Hammadids.
Concentrating initiatory chains derived from the School of Baghdad, Al Jilani, of Al-Ghazali , Abu Midian passed by them and Ibn Machich Chadili to most tourouq Maghreb. Scholar, mystic, teacher, poet, he said: "When Truth is, she makes everything disappear."
His reputation for learning and holiness brought him, as Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), distrust of Sultan Almohad Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur who summoned him to Morocco he will never reach. He died in El Eubbad November 13, 1198. This is where we built his tomb became a pilgrimage site for Tlemcen.
To give an idea of the influence from beyond the grave by Sidi Abu Midian, recall that according to the columnist Zerkechi, a Sultan of Constantine was come to make a pious visit in the fourteenth century, and having stopped before the catafalque of the saint was placed over his hand by taking the solemn oath not to do anything else from that day, that return good for evil Mausoleum of Sidi Boumedienne Located in the suburb of El Eubbad in Tlemcen, his mausoleum was built by the successor Almohad of Al-Mansur , Muhammad an-Nasir , honoring the memory of the saint. This monument which still exists, now a place of pilgrimage, restored and beautified with the sultan Zianides Yaghmurasen , then by the Sultan Merinid Abu al-Hasan Ali (Sultan black) who joined with him, apart from a small palace, a mosque in which Sarmachik, the architect of Mohammed El-Kebir Bey of Oran , undertook the work, and to which the Emir Abdelkader donated a minbar . 
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Proverbs and poems of Abu Midian
Publications Abu Midian
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